Stories and items from other parts of the blog:
* Will coffee perk up an East Los Angeles landmark? Eastsider on the Go
* Eastside Crime Watch: Watch your cars, El Sereno. Eastside 911
* Patience might finally pay off with more parkland. Eastside Citizen
Photo from SelfHelpGraphics.com
{ 0 comments }
his employees and customers to close their Citibank accounts as well. He figures at least 20 have done so.
“I don’t want to support a bank that does stuff like that,” said Schoenhals, who had been one of Bernal’s customers for 13 y ears. “She treated everybody the same. It was like family.”
Few people expect Citibank to rehire Bernal because 20 people have pulled their money out of the bank. But, at the very least, Bernal’s supporters want Citibank to recognize her contributions to the community and the bank and to give her a severance. “It’s just been so insulting and humiliating,” said Brooks of Bernal’s treatment.
Bernal, for her part, is still not clear what she will be doing long term.
“I would love to go back to do what I do best,” Bernal said. “I want to go back to [Silver Lake]. Those are my people. My customers gave me much more than I ever game them.”
{ 0 comments }
City to require graffiti-resistant coating on all new homes. LA Times
Why bother with anti-graffiti coating when fake ivy and a glue gun keeps a section of Highland Park tag free. 90042
How will this turn out? Echo Park bar owners blog about their business in a Huffington Post diary. Huffington Post
Incubus musician is no Kayne West when it comes to drawing customers to a Silver Lake sneaker store. West Coast Sound
The whimsical world of Highland Park artist David Weidman. 90042
How Occidental College handled this year’s flood of freshman. Oxy Weekly
Today’s Agenda:
* Community meeting over Elysian Park expansion on Riverside Drive. CD 13
{ 0 comments }
Echo Park residents near Macbeth and Quintero streets awoke this morning to find small drifts of white feathers on the street and on cars. Scott Fajack, who took the photo, assumes they must have fallen off a truck. It may look messy but feather dumping is the least of Echo Park’s litter problems.
Photo by Scott Fajack
{ 0 comments }
A group of Echo Park residents, city employees and consultants took a walk around Echo Park Lake this morning to review some of the changes and improvements proposed under an $84 million plan to rehabilitate the lake. The focus of the project is to improve water quality but there will be other benefits as well. Official today said that they will hire lotus expert Virgina Hayes from Santa Barbara’s Lotusland to look at how to restore Echo Park Lake’s lotus bed as part of the project, which will require the draining of the lake and most likely the closure of the park. When the park reopens, look for the Lady of Lake statue to return to her original position at the tip of a peninsula that is now home to a cinder block pump house.
This morning’s review of the lake project will continue with a 1 pm meeting at the Echo Park Recreation Center.
Related stories:
* Cleaning up Echo Park Lake will make a big mess for residents. The Eastsider
* What will the lotus look like when they return to Echo Park Lake? The Eastsider
{ 0 comments }
When the lights went out in Montecito Heights. Above the City
What were they thinking? Former $1 million Silver Lake town house now $675,000. Curbed LA
The Parrots of Cypress Park – now on video and in stereo. KPCC
The streams under our streets. Chicken Corner
Walt Disney ate here. Atwater Village Newbie
Don’t cats like art, too? Hermon Dog park to get $8,000 art project. NELA List
Today’s Agenda:
* Echo Park Lake rehab tour this morning. Echo Park Now
* Get used to coyotes: “Coexisting with Our Wildlife” in Silver Lake.
{ 0 comments }
* The cultural heart of Garfield High remains burned out. School Yard
* Why senior lead officers keeping coming and going in Cypress Park & Glassell Park. Eastside 911
* What a difference a major gang raid makes. Eastside 911
* Marshall High seeks help for college bound seniors. School Yard
Photo from Garfield High photo gallery
{ 0 comments }
An early morning traffic accident at Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue left one car on the sidewalk and another vehicle smashed in the middle of the intersection, according to the Echo Park Trading Post, which also published more photos from the accident scene. The small car pictured above came to a halt near vendors and a busy bus stop at the southeast corner of the Echo Park intersection. The accident occurred at about 7 am. More details when available at Eastside 911.
Photo from Echo Park Trading Post website
{ 0 comments }
One dead and two injured after driver runs a red light in Boyle Heights. LA Now
Mt. Washington is East LA as far as Google Maps is concerned. Metblogs
Tag, report, clean, repeat. Atwater Village Newbie
Search and destroy mission against Asian citrus pest goes far beyond Echo Park and Silver Lake. LA Times
Seafood and frog legs now selling in Frogtown (Elysian Valley). Food GPS
What happens to 300 Caltrans-owned homes in El Sereno if 710 freeway surface route is killed? Star News
Mt. Washington dog attack. NELA List
Echo Park drama in the Vons parking lot. Echo Park Now
{ 0 comments }
Delivering mail on Mt. Washington would seem to be a thankless job. The streets are steep, sidewalks are few but dogs are plentiful. What mail carrier wouldn’t be happy to give up this challenging route? Not John Ayala. For 23 years, Ayala has trekked up and down the streets of Mt. Washington, delivering letters and packages to more than 500 addresses on his route, which included such streets San Rafael, Avenue 37 and Rosewood. Over the years he got to know the residents, watched children grow up and became part of the community. “I have never seen anything like it,” he said.
But Ayala was recently reassigned off Mt. Washington as part of a budget cutting move by the U.S. Postal Service. Ayala’s fans on Mt. Washington miss the carrier, who on Tuesday was honored at the Mt. Washington Assn. meeting with a certificate of appreciation from Councilman Jose Huizar and a standing ovation from the audience.
Ayala misses Mt. Washington, too. His new route in Cypress Park includes far more stops – 635 – than he served in Mt. Washington, leaving him little time to meet residents. Said Ayalya: “I don’t have time to talk to anyone.”
{ 0 comments }
L.A. Web Awards
L.A.Weekly.com
Best of L.A.
Los Angeles Magazine
Bloggers don't live on comments alone. Your $20 annual Eastsider Reader Sponsorship will help pay to maintain consistent and lively neighborhood news coverage. The $20 sponsorship will be used to defray the costs of gathering news and stories. In return, you will be publicly recognized as a sponsor of The Eastsider. Look for future benefits and discounts from neighborhood merchants.
You can pay via PayPal or by using your credit or debit card. Just click on the button below to subscribe today.
Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes.
The Eastsider publishes stories and news from the northeast corner of the City of Los Angeles and neighboring East Los Angeles. Who is the Eastsider? Where does the Eastsider roam? Read on
x
Contact The Eastsider
(213) 255-5026 | hello@theEastsiderLA.com
Our banner image features the work of Echo Park artist Mary-Austin Klein. This section of "Clouds Over Echo Park" was used with permission.
